My First Ever Dry Suit Dive!!! (At 10 at Night!)

Hi everyone!
I’m 10 years old, and this is the story of my VERY first time trying a dry suit. It was super crazy and funny and a little bit upside-down.

So, it all started at 8 to 10 at night when I went with my daddy to do a dive. We met a man named Karl. He was really nice and kept calling me “Aurora,” which made me feel like a real diver.

Getting Into the Dry Suit

I was trying to get into my dry suit and guess what?
It was WAY too big.
Like… baggy-sleeves-too-big and air-bubbles-everywhere too big.

But the best part?
ALL my gear was pink!
My fins, my mask, everything. I was basically a pink diving marshmallow.

A nice lady helped hold me so I didn’t fall over while Daddy zipped me up.

First One in the Pool!

I got into the pool first and immediately started floating around like a balloon that got lost at a birthday party. I kept going up… then down… then sideways… then UPSIDE DOWN.

For at least 30 minutes I was mostly upside down.
Not on purpose.
Just… because the dry suit said so. In a drysuit you have air so I had moved and the air  got trapped by my feet.

Switching Fins & Still Floating

My pink fins weren’t working right, so I got new white fins. They helped a TINY bit, but I still kept popping up like a popcorn kernel.

I would go down…
and 20 seconds later—BOOP—back up again.

Trying a Different Dry Suit

Then I tried a second dry suit, but this time my feet were too big for it.
So that didn’t work either.

But I did do a fin pivot, which is a skill where you stay balanced on your fins. I also had to kind of rescue myself from floating upside down again… which should totally count as a skill too.

Last 15 Minutes

For the last part of the night, I just went in the pool in my swimsuit instead. No floating, no upside-down-ing. Just swimming.

When we got out, I tried to help pack up, but they said we could go home to bed because it was so late.

And that was my first dry suit night!
I didn’t really “dive,” but I sure did float a LOT.